"Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth," the ancient mathematician and engineer Archimedes is supposed to have said about the powers of leverage. Told in the voice of Cicero as he travels to Syracuse to learn more about the great inventor, and illustrated with lighthearted yet finely detailed cartoons, this life of Archimedes shows how he established such mechanical laws as buoyancy and leverage and invented basic machines like the screw, in this oversized picture book for readers 8 and up.